Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 96
The study of geophysics and geochemistry in the field is so extensive and inclusive a department of science that no resident staff could hope to cover the whole field without large expense and a very large working force.
Who acts: study, resident staff · What happens: be, hope, cover, work, study · To what, where: department, whole field, geophysics
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (study, resident staff), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 study | det |
| 2 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 extensive | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 geophysics | case |
| 4 | geophysics | geophysics | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 study | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 geochemistry | cc |
| 6 | geochemistry | geochemistry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 geophysics | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 field | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 field | det |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 geochemistry | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 extensive | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 extensive | advmod |
| 12 | extensive | extensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 inclusive | cc |
| 14 | inclusive | inclusive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 extensive | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 department | det |
| 16 | department | department | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 extensive | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 science | case |
| 18 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 department | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 hope | obj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 staff | det |
| 21 | resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 staff | compound |
| 22 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hope | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 hope | aux |
| 24 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 department | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 cover | mark |
| 26 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 hope | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 field | det |
| 28 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 field | amod |
| 29 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cover | obj |
| 30 | without | without | ADP | _ | 32 expense | case |
| 31 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 expense | amod |
| 32 | expense | expense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cover | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 force | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 force | det |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 large | advmod |
| 36 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 force | amod |
| 37 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 force | amod |
| 38 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 expense | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 extensive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the study of geophysics and geochemistry in the field | a department of science nsubj; extensive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the study of geophysics and geochemistry in the field not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | hope | could | no resident staff | a department of science | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cover not said to happen | to-infinitive | no resident staff not said here | the whole field | without large expense and a large working force | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme field=Destination | |||
| 5 | work | gerund | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | study | geophysics and geochemistry in the field | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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